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Soru 1

Who described organizations as highly social environments in which workers are as interested in recognition and psychological support as they are in salary and favorable working conditions?

Soru 1

Which of the following public administration theory is concerned with the organization and management of contained and bounded public institutions?

Soru 2

Which scholar argued that individuals in organizations are naturally inclined to work, to seek responsibility, to cooperate, to be productive, and to take pride in their work?

Soru 2

I. focuses on language
II. the context of human interactions
III. there are absolute truths
IV. social construction of reality

Which of the above are related to the focus of postmodern theory?

Soru 3

Which of the following is not among the assumptions that emerged from Minnowbrook Conference?

Soru 3

Whose purpose was to take the “science” of scientific management literally, that is, to reduce management to its most elemental operations and reassemble it on the basis of universal principles discovered and confirmed by the scientific method?

Soru 4

Applications of post-positivism to public administration were informed by which philosophical argument?

Soru 4

The concept "that allowed decision theory to escape the confining orbit of traditional rational choice theory and move in directions that clearly offered more realistic descriptions of administrative behavior" is called by which of the following?

Soru 5

Whose application of critical theory states that a critical theory of public organizations would examine the technical basis of bureaucratic domination and the ideological justifications for this condition?

Soru 5

Which of the following names introduced the discipline to the self-maximizing bureaucrat ?

Soru 6

"___________is the Enlightenment rejection of premodernity, of myths, mysteries, and traditional powers based on heredity or ordination."

Which term best completes the given blank?

Soru 6

I. to treat governance as a project to corral
II. governance with the NPM movement
III. to treat governance as the attempt to understand the lateral and institutional relations in administrative agencies in the context of the disarticulated state
IV. to provide perspectives on what “should” be done and to create guides for action

Which of the above responses show the clear need for theories of governance?

Soru 7

"______________ is the pursuit of knowledge through reason, and knowledge thus derived is simply assumed to be factual and therefore true."

Which term best completes the given blank?

Soru 7

I. rational utility maximization
II. methodological individualism
III. institutional behavior
IV. scientific management

Rational choice is deductively tied to which of the above concepts ?

Soru 8

What is the study of relationship between reason, language and knowledge?

Soru 8

.................... is arguably an intellectual framework important enough to warrant separate treatments on its merits, rather than be assigned to the supporting role it played.

Which of the following completes the statement above?

Soru 9

______________,in the postmodern perspective, is primarily concerned with objective knowledge and its development. ______________is more concerned with values and the search for truth than in characterizations of knowledge.

Which two terms best complete the blanks given above?

Soru 9

Currently, ................ is more a term describing a changing public administration than it is a coherent theory itself.

Which of the following completes the sentence above?

Soru 10

Which of the following is not among the postmodern criticisms of modernist public administration?

Soru 10

I. how structure and organization shape the behavior of public actors
II. how variation in structure affects decision-making, program implementation, and outcomes
III. how public actors shape the structure of government
IV how variation in structure affects non-public behaviors

Which of the above are the big themes of institutional theory?

Soru 11

I. Public administration
II. Government administration
III. Government management

The term “governance” is a surrogate or proxy for which of the above in the discipline’s leading literature?

Soru 11

“It should parsimoniously and systematically describe the phenomenon under study and logically connect its elements into a clear understanding of the actors, institutions, and processes involved. By doing so, it should provide a platform to make probabilistic assessments about the likely consequences or outcomes of specific actions (or nonactions) that reflect a more accurate understanding and a greater predictive power than arguments reliant upon intuition, common sense, political expediency, ideological preference, or individual experience”.

Which term is described by the above sentences?

Soru 12

Who argues that there are five main problems with the state of the governance framework?

Soru 12

Which theory is grounded in economics and describes a contractual relationship between elected and appointed government actors?

Soru 13

Which scholar was accepted as the architect of the bureaucratic politics movement?

Soru 13

I. Productivity
II. Marketization
III. Decentralization
IV. Accountability

Which of the above core issues are argued by Donald Kettl in the reform movement ?

Soru 14

“This theory in public administration is concerned with the organization and management of contained and bounded public institutions. Its explanatory target covers the relationship among organizational structure, its associated rules and norms, and the organizational process, behaviors, outcomes, and accountability of public agencies".

Which theory is described by the above sentences?

Soru 14

The reform movement predicated on government leveraging market mechanisms to overcome the pathologies of traditional bureaucracy is called by which of the following?

Soru 15

Postmodern theory in many ways is the _______________of the theoretical fragmentation in public administration that began with the assault on the politics-administration dichotomy.

Soru 15

Who suggests that the ability of administration conjunctions to impose order and coherence on public service provision depends upon several factors like the scope, strength, and duration of formal and informal agreements among interjurisdictional executive actors?

Soru 16

Which of the following is not true about Postmodern theory?

Soru 16

The study of how entities (in this case, states) adapt to changes in the environment and relations with other entities (states) is called by which of the following?

Soru 17

The father of decision theory, Simon described humans as ________—actors who adopt behaviors that are “good enough” to have a reasonable probability of achieving a desired end. Perfectly rational decisions would require information, attention, and other resources that simply are not available to the average human being.

Soru 17

I. Democracy
II. Competition
III. Hierarchy

Which of the above is/are the prerequisite/s for conjunction to exist according to Frederickson ?

Soru 18

It is premised on the belief that the central behavioral assumption of neoclassical economics is universal, that is, that rational self-interest is the primary motivator of purposive action.

Which theory is described by the above sentences?

Soru 18

I. Institutional
II. Organizational
III, Technical
IV . Individual

Lynn et al.’s concept of governance operates at least on which of the above levels?

Soru 19

According to theory of Governance, governments have become less hierarchical, less centralized, and more willing to ____________ considerable grants of policymaking power to the private sector.

Soru 19

According to Donald Kettl's argument that, "reform effort as a serious attempt to assess how governments can do “more with less” by sustaining, or even expanding, public services with lower resource investments" is called by which of the following?

Soru 20

There is universal agreement that advancements in governance theory, perhaps more so than in any other theoretical framework, provide the best opportunity for improving public service ______________.

Soru 20

I. The dominance of networks.
II. The state’s declining capacity for direct control.
III. The blending of public and private resources.
IV. Use of multiple instruments.
V. Service orientation.

Peters and Pierre argue which of the above elements that characterize discussions of governance?

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